Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army v. Air Force bickering -Nickerson had disobeyed these orders "absolutely and diametrically," said General Medaris, and "he does not have any further value to the military service." Would Medaris ever want Nicierson back at the missile agency? "I would not." Reason: "Colonel Nickerson has violated the fundamental military code...
...most Western capitals found that their answer was no: as Macmillan recently told Bulganin, the arms buildup could hardly stop until the legitimate political fears that produced it had been overcome. But the subject of the London talks was not, strictly speaking, disarmament, but the development of a dueling code. Having discovered that neither side could attack the other (or even defend itself) without incurring self-destruction, both were concerned that no sudden moves or impulsive gestures, misunderstood by nervous opponents, should plunge them together into nuclear oblivion. The proposals were not to lay down weapons but rather to sheathe...
...affidavit from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, quickly appealed to the Supreme Court what they called McGarraghy's "clearly wrong" injunction, bypassing the Appellate Court on grounds that the Girard case's "imperative public importance" demanded a speedy settlement. Their two-fold argument: 1) the Uniform Code of Military Justice permits the Pentagon to surrender jurisdiction to civil authority where it sees fit; 2) in international relations, i.e., the status-of-forces agreement with Japan, the U.S. executive branch has power to waive jurisdiction over overseas G.I.s. At week's end the U.S. Supreme Court decided...
...Says the A.M.A. Code of Ethics, as recently revised (TIME, June 17): "A physician may choose whom he will serve. In an emergency, however, he should render service to the best of his ability. Having undertaken the care of a patient, he may not neglect him." Regarding payment, the code says: "His fee should be commensurate with the services rendered and the patient's ability...
...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...